I am here today to talk about child care licensing, and the federal child care and developmentfund (CCDF) quality dollars that are appropriated to DFPS each session. As you may know, those funds come from the four percent quality set-­‐aside required by the CCDF rules, and were allocated to the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) prior to 2003. However, the 2003 budget crisis prompted the Legislature to shift the funds to DFPS to pay for basic child care licensing functions.